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amarrocchi OP t1_j433vyy wrote

Reply to comment by msaet in I am Assunta Marrocchi, editor of the book "Sustainable Strategies in Organic Electronics, which was published by Woodhead Publishing (Elsevier). AMA! by amarrocchi

Hi! Organic electronics is a technology that utilizes organic molecules or polymers to create electronic components for many application areas (photovoltaic, transistors, sensors, oleds, etc). Organics indeed may be lighter (useful for portable devices), and more flexible than conventional silicon-based inorganic materials. Also, they can undergo a wider range of chemical modifications, which, in turn, enables to fine-tune their properties (e.g., color).

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Chern_Simons t1_j441j6r wrote

Do OE devices work in similar ways to semiconductors (i.e. do they rely on pn junction etc)?

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amarrocchi OP t1_j473oqi wrote

Hi! Yes, OE devices work similarly to the conventional, and they rely on organic molecules and polymers that can be semiconductors ( so you can fabricate, for example, a kind of pn junction, or the active layer of a transistor etc), or insulators ( for dielectrics in transistor, or device substrates), and even as conductors, though these latter are a limited class.

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